This Mom's Hilarious Hack Is the Perfect Solution for Strangers Who Keep Touching Your Bump

If you’re pregnant or have ever been pregnant, chances are you’ve encountered a stranger or even a loved one who is way too enthusiastic about touching your baby bump. This overly-eager individual might rush up to your belly, intent on stroking, cradling, or otherwise getting their germ-ridden hands on your stomach.

Not all pregnant women are the same, and some women don't mind when friends, family, or strangers touch their bump. If that's you, more power to ya! But if the mere thought of a stranger draping themselves across your burgeoning baby bump makes you break out in hives, one mom has the perfect solution for you: a “no touchy” spray, inspired by none other than the movie TheEmperor’s New Groove, and featuring a photo of Emperor Kuzco saying, "No touchy!"

If you’ve never seen that movie, first of all: What? And second of all, go watch it! It’s one of my all-time favorite movies and a large part of my family’s inside jokes are composed entirely of quotes from this movie, so I applaud this mom 10,000 percent all the way.

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The way the spray would work, I imagine, is simple. An expectant mother can just go about her day with the spray near her side, in her bag, or tucked neatly into the panel of her maternity pants. And then, when a wayward hand makes a path for her belly, bam, the spray comes out and the “no touchy” message comes across loud and clear.

The Kuzco-inspired belly repellant is the brainchild of one husband as a way to help his touched-out wife — and she was generous enough to share it with everyone on the Internet in a Reddit thread. The Reddit user who posted the photo explained that her husband took considerable care when crafting the belly spray, taking over an hour to Mod-Podge the image of the unimpressed llama on the bottle and ensure it was smooth, with nary a wrinkle or crease in sight. Of course, the spray was a hit and many commenters applauded her husband for coming up with the perfect product for pregnant women.

“I never knew how badly I needed something until now,” remarked one commenter.

Other commenters shared their own horror stories of strangers grabbing their bellies as well as bonded over all of the inappropriate things people feel they can say to women just because they happen to be gestating a human. But thanks to one husband’s ingenuity, we now have a simple solution to keeping all those rude people at bay: just point and spray. No touchy, world!

Chaunie is a former labor and delivery nurse, a mom of four, and a blogger at Tiny Blue Lines. She thinks pregnancy is amazing, women are strong, and that moms have the best (and most exhausting) job in the world.